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Dec. 5.— J. D. Kendall, M.E., F.G.S.— On the Theory of Evolution. 



Dec. 18.— AV. H. Watson, F.C.S., F.M.S.— On the Food of Plants. 



Jan. 9. — J. Hughes — On Steam Boilers. 



Jan. 23.— E. F. Martin — On Optical Instruments. (Illustrated). 



Feb. 6.— Right Hon. G. C. Bentinck, M.P.— Ou Modern Architecture. 



Feb. 20. — J. Eaton, M.D. — On the Eye: its Structure and Development. 



March 6.— T. F. I'Anson, M.D. —On the Sense of Touch. 



March 20. — J. C. Waed, F.G.S.— On the Ear: its Structure and Development. 



April 3. — W. Wilson — On Linen and the Linen Trade. 



April 17. — Conversazione — Election of Officers, &c. 



Hour of Meeting 8 p.m. 



During the past year some very good work has been done; and 

 although the entire expenditure of the Society has been about ;!^i8i, 

 which inckided an extraordinary item of ^121, the ordinary annual 

 expenditure was well within the annual revenue. 



During the session 61 new members have been elected, and the 

 number of members whose names have been removed from the Register — 

 death or removal to some other part of the country being the chief 

 cause — amounts to 29, leaving a nett increase of 32. 



The session opened in a very auspicious manner, the conversazione 

 being very largely attended by members and friends of the Association. A 

 new feature in the past session has been the engagement of Mr. Proctor, 

 the eminent and popular lecturer and writer on Astronomy, who gave 

 his instructing and interesting lecture "On the Giant Planets" to a large 

 and ap]Dreciative audience of members and non-members. The success 

 that attended this action of the Committee far exceeded their expectations. 

 The programme of the Association has also included a paper from the 

 Right Hon. G. C. Bentinck, M.P., "On the Decline and Fall of 

 British Architecture," a Lecture which has since been fully discussed in 

 the Architectural Journals. These two Lectures were given in the Town 

 Hall. 



The other nine Meetings at which papers were read, were held in 

 the Association Rooms, in Howgill Street. Of nine papers, one was 

 literary, three were physiological, and five were on various other scientific 

 subjects. The last meeting of the session was a conversazione, when 



